Cane-carrier for sugar-mills.



PATENTBD JAN. 31, 1905.

H. FROEHLIGH. CANE CARRIER FOR SUGAR MILLS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22. 1903.

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V H. FROEHLIGH. CANE CARRIER FOR SUGAR MILLS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22. 1303.

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A hop/v5 rs PATENTED JAN. 31, 1905 H. FROBHLICH. CANE CARRIER FOR SUGAR MILLS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22, 1803.

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80 781.511. Patented January 31, 1905.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

lllCNR Y FROEll LICH, OF LIHUE, TERRITORY OF HAW'AII.

CANE-CARRIER FOR SUGAR-MILES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,511, dated January 31, 1905.

Application filed August 22,1903- Sarial F0. 170,435.

7 0.1!- (I'll/17M it may norm/Wu..- I apron 8. This apron is provided with bear- Be it known that l. H uxm' Fnosnuou. a ers 8, which rest upon the rolls 9, thereby recitizen of the United States, and a resident of i'lieving friction to as great an extent as possi Lihue. in the Island of kauai :uid 'lerritory ble. Connected with a toothed wheel 10 and of Hawaii. have invented a newand improved driven thereby is a-gearing 11, from which is Cane-( arrier foi'Sngai'-.\Iills,of which the foldriven a sprocket-chain 12, this sprocketlowing is a full. clear, and exact description. chain causing the rotation of a shaft 13, pro- My invention relates to cane-carriers for vided with knives 14. The arrz-nzgeulent of sugar-mills, my more particular object being the gearing is such that the knives 14 have a tocauseannif(.n-ina|1d even feed of cane to higher speed in the same direction than the the crusher. thereby dispensing to a great exupper portion of theendless carrierS. A taketent with the necessity of manipulating the up 15, provided with a screw 16, serves to cane by hand. tighten or loosen the driven belt or carrier 8. My invention further relates to certain de; A second endless b lt or carrier 17 is so tailsot' mechanism whereby the deposit of mounted as to be free to travel upon the the cane upon thecm'riersiseflected uniformly rollers 18 and is provided with fingers 19, and :mtomaticnly and whereby the distribupreferably of the shape indicated. This belt tion of the cane after reaching the carriers or carrier is mounted upon the cylinders 20 and before reaching the cruslurs is rendered 21, the latter cylinder being connected with a as uniform as possible. take-up 212, provided with an adjusting-screw Reference is to be had to the accompanying 23. The carrier 17 is propelled by means of a drawings, forming a part of this specification, sprocket-chain 24, which engages a sprocketin \vhichsimilar characters of reference indiwheel upon the shaft 96. By means of cute corresponding parts in all the figures. a sprocket-chain 27 motion is communicated Figure 1 is a side elevation showing my into the revolublecylindcrQS. Connected with vcntion as applied to a sugar-mill. Fig. 2 is the shaft 30 of this cylinder, which forms a a fragmentary side elevation somewhat enpivotalsupport.isaframecomprisingbarsQQ, larged,lml.otherwisesimilmto the viewshown and upon the out-er or free end of this frame in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a partial vertical cressisarevolubic cylinder3l. An endless beltor section upon the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 carrier 32 extends from the revolnhlecylinder is a vertical cross-smztiou upon the line 4 4 of 28tothereyolublecylinder3l. Mounted upon Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective this belt 32. are fingers 33 and knives 34. A view showing my improved mechanism for take-up 35. provided with an adjusting-screw maintainingthe cane-car upon its track while l 3 ,is used for the purpose of adjusting the being dumped. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary plan tension of the belt 32. An arc-shaped guide of the belt 32 and its connections, and Fig. 7 36 is provided with a slot 37. and slidably is a fragmentary perspective view of the admounted upon this guide isa limiting-stop 38, justable limiting-stop for the belt 32. provided with a thumb-nut 1. whereby the Upon a suitable foundation 1 a crusher 2 limiting-stop may be placed in anydcsired pois mounted in the usual manner, and this sition relatively to the slot-37-that is to say, crusher is provided with rolls 3. A chute 4 is the limiting-stop may be moved upward within provided for feeding the cane downwardly and the slot 37 by merely loosening the thumb-nut into the crusher. The outer end of the chute 39, pushing the limiting-stop 38 upward to the 4, together with the many working parts, is point desired, and tightening the thumb-nut mounted upon the framework 5. The crusher 39. By this means the bars -29 may be given is driven in any approved manner, and this any desired degree of inclination. part of the mechanism being old needs no A platform 40 is mounted upon trunnions description. By means of a sprocket-chain 41 and is provided with a. lever 42 andabrace 6 power is conveyed from the crusher to the 43, as shown more particularly in Fig. 3. rollers 7, which drive the endless traveling Upon the lower end of the lever 42 is an iron hood .44, which isen a r-d by achain 45. This chain passes over pulleys 46 i 48 and chainwhcel -19 and is thereby connected with a f gearing 50, controllable by a hand-wheel it will be seen from Fig. that by turning the hand-wheel 51 to the right or to the left the lever 42 may at will be drawn from its posi tion shown in full lines to that shown in dotted lines. The platform 40 is provided with rails 52, upon which the cane-car 53 is supported. Mounted upon the side of thecar53 is a cleat 54. Thiscleatisdetachablyengaged by a hook 55, provided with a turnbuckle 56 and revoluble head 57., mounted upon the shaft 58, which rests in bearings 59- The shaft 58 is provided with a fork 60, which may be turned within certain limits by lowering the hook to a substantially horizontal position. A hasp ($1 is secured fixedly in position by means of bolts 62. 'hen the operator desi res to dump cane from the car 53, he raises the hook into the position indicated in Figs. Sand thereby causing the hook to engage the cleat 54. B3: manipulating the hand-wheel as above deseribrd the car may be dumped, as indicated by dotted iines in Fig. 3. Thehook by binding firmly upon the cleat 5t prevents the car from leaving the rail. The car being dumped and restored to the position indicated in full lines in Fig. 3, the hook fifiisdetached from the eleat and is lowered to a horizontal position. thereby causing the fork 60 to assumc a vertical position. oneoftheforks, b0", being thereby carried directly beneath the hasp 61 and preventing the platform 40 from being tilted at an inopportune moment so as todumpthecar. The hasp 61 is mounted upon a stationary flooringfif-i. A fender64 depends from the platform, and a bevel 66 is provided for the purpose of facilitating the sliding of th cane downward upon thecarrier 17. The door of the ear is shown at am] alsoconstitutes an inclined surface over which the cane may travel freely. if desired, however, the car 53 need not be used for dumping the cane, which step may b:- performed by hand or by an unloadbig-machine.

It will be seen from Fig. 4 that the traveling apron IT is somewhat lH'Hih'lL! than the traveling apron S. bution'of thccanc is rendered somewhat more effective, because as tlucane passes from the upper apron tothe lower one the tendency is to makithe layer of the cane slightly deeper .j

upon the lower traveling apron. It will be also holed that the guard 67, which is pro- ,vidcd with mutilations 6'5, serves as a fender 'fonprevI-nting the came from lmingdrawn out A somewhat I The purpose of this guard is to prrv nl cane from passing By its use cane is fed f belie-ail: the endless apron 17. similar guard is shown at l3.

over the cutters H. beneath the cutter. |n all cases the cutters have a higher speed than the speed of the traveling cane.

By this means the distril The operation of my device is as follows: i After the cane is dumped by hand or by an uuloading-ruachimit is m rely thrown evenly upon the carrier 17. If. however. it is desired to dump the cane by the mechanism described, the ca 53 is moved out upon therails 59,.the hook 555 is placed upon the chat 54, and the hand-wheel 51 is manipulated for the i purpose of dumping the cane upon the carrier 17. This manipulation (.lispenses with all the laborers heretofore used on the carrier and unloading-machines. Of course some care must be exercised in manipulating the handwheel 51, so that the cane is dumped with considerable uniformity. The fingers 19. together with the motion of the carrier 17. tends to distribute the cane still more equally. The cane is now carried up the incline represented by the uppersurface of the carrier 17, and any excess of cane resting upon the carrier is vigorously manipulated by the fingers 33 upon the belt 32 and also by the knives 3-! upon this belt. The fingers 33 and knives 34 have a motion contra? to that-of the belt 17am also have greater. rapidity. Should a large mass of cane chance tolodge upon any given portion of the carrier 17, the mass upon reaching theouter or free end of the belt Iii-3 and being operated upon by the lingers and knives 33 34 thrown backward, and thus partially scattered down the inclined surface of the carrier 17. Xormallythis is all that occurs in case of a large pile of cane coming up at the same time to the fingers and knives. ()ceasionally it may happen, however, when such a gorge of cane occurs that the fingers and .knives arennable to scatter the accumulation, and'in this event the mass of cane causes the roller 31 to be lifted bodily, thereby preventing breakage of the knives and lingers and allowing the excess of cane to .mss. The cane passes from the upper or left-hand end of the carrier 17 to the lower end of thccarrier-belt8, from w h i ch i t is conveyed upward to the chute 4. lust before passing into the chute, however, the cane is subjected to a second manipulation by the 'revoiubie knives Hfwhich travel in the same direction to that of the cane and render the distribution of the cane still more effective. It will be understood, of course, that all of the knives used have a sullicient speed to cut projecting stalks of cane and that imlcpendently of their cutting function they serve as distributers. The cane next passes into the chute 4, entering at the larger upper crusher. l Having thus described my invention. I claim as new and dcsi re to secu rc by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of a traveling endless apron, a frame mounted adjacent thereto and free to swing, a belt movable relatively to said frame, knives moLnted upon said belt, and means for actuating said belt.

2. In acanc-carrier forsugar-mills, the comend thereof, and is thus delivered to the Jenn-u...)

hination of a member for conveyingcane from one point to another, a frame mounted thereover and free to swing relatively thereto, revoluble members mounted upon said frame, means for actuating said revolnble members, a belt mounted upon said revoluble members and driven therei v, and knives mounted upon said belt and provided with edges directed against the flow of the cane.

3. lnacane-carrier forsugar-mills, the combination of an endless traveling apron, means for actuating the same, mechanism mounted adjacent to said endless traveling apron and provided with knives having edges disposed in a dinection opposite the general direction j of travel of said apron for the purpose of mutilating cane resting thereupon, and means for automatically allowing said mechanism to move relatively to said apron under the pressure of an excess of said cane,

4. l n a cane-carrier forsugar-mills, the combination of a member for conveyingcane from one point toanother, mechanism provided with active members for mutilating said cane, said mechanism being free to swing, means for actuating said mechanism so that said members f travel in a direction contrary to that of said cane, and a limiting-stop controllable at will for governing the amount of swing of said mechanism. I

5. in a cane-carrier forsugar-mills, the combination of an endless traveling apron, a belt mounted thereover, cutting-knives mounted upon said belt for the purpose of mutilating the cane resting thereupon and also for exerting a raking action upon the cane, said knives being provided with edges directed contrary to the general direction of travel of said cane, lingers mounted upon said belt incane, and means, for actuating said endless traveling apron and said belt.

6. In a cane- 'arrier forsugar-mills. the combination of an endless traveling apron, a belt mounted thereover, cutting-.lmives mounted j upon said belt for the purpose of mutilating the cane resting thereupon and also of exerting a raking action upon the cane. said knives being provided with edges directed contrary I to the general direction of trave of said cane. and means for actuating said endless traveling apron and said belt.

7. in a cane-carrier forsugar-mills, the combination of mechanism for conveying the cane from oncpoint to another, a table disposed adjacent to said mechanism and free to tilt relatively thereto, a vehicle mounted upon said table and free to receive and discharge cane relatively to said mechanism for convey- ;-ing the same, means controllable at will for causing said table to tilt, a shaft journaled flupon said table, a hook connected with said shaft and adapted to enga e said vehicle for 5 holding the same upon said table, while said table is tilted, a fork connected with said shaft and free to turn therewith, and a stationary l fastening for engaging said fork and temporarily pr vcnting said table from tilting.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

v HENRY FROEHLIUH. 'itnesses:

H. l). \VISHARD, Eass'r Clan-r. 

